Vassar’s Beauty
Inspired by the aesthetic beauty of Vassar, this particular motion piece is filled with wonderful shots of its campus and students. Actually, I had this project in mind for a while but never get a chance to work on it until this past weekend and it only took me a few hours. I felt in love with the campus the first time I came for my job interview. Watch the slideshow and you’ll see why. Make sure to crank up your speakers. I don’t care if your boss is standing right next to you.
Disclaimer! Even though the piece is about Vassar, it has nothing to do with work. It’s only for my personal entertainment purpose but if you are considering going to Vassar, you might want to check it out. All images are used with permission from Vassar. Music produced by Tomoyasu Hotei, courtesy of IRc2 Corp. and Toshiba-EMI Ltd.
Any comments, anyone? hung?, hoang?, Songvinh? come on!…share your ideas and judgments, so we all can learn from each others.
Well Trung, give me yours then. LOL!
Hi Donny,
Let me start saying that this motion piece of “Beauty of Vassar” is a complete piece compares to “Tu Su” one. In addition, the graphics quality is good, the structures and the surroundings of the school are beautiful. In term of stimulated visualization, to me, it isn’t reached to the advance yet! If you demonstrate it as an ad or an intro for presenting Vassar, then it’ll need to be modified for a suitable media purposes.
Here is a few things I think it needs to be improved are (could be more or less):
1. Reduce the time frame to meet the required standard for graphic media (TV, pictures show and etc.), some of the slides time sequences are too long (up to 10 secs.)
2. Need more creativenesses in focus point (more variable angle shots, depth maneuvers and manipulations.) rather than just move left to right, up to down and reverse.
3. Put more action texture in the piece like: human movements, expressions, you know! Some more of highlights, positiveness, and successfulness from people (professors, staffs, students…) to enlighten (show) the viewers. I think you got more still live of structure shots than you actually needed. Of course this got to do with a reducing time of whole piece.
4. Create (compose) a music bed after all of the graphics took place for completing the whole piece, not the other way around. As I know that you tried to fit all of the graphic pieces to commendate the already created music bed (produced by Tomoyasu Hotei), correct me if I’m wrong…I know! It will need much more time and human labor efforts to produce this way. It’s surely cost more too. But this way usually is being applied by most of the producers out there. I wouldn’t say this totally is a right way, but in my experience, it tends to be more successful outcome. Although, your craftsmanship in this piece is appreciated.
In fine arts, an artist always visualize the needed size of the canvas which he/she is going to generate the expression on and “if” an art piece is finally finished, then the frame will be installed if necessary. It’s not good if a painter have to or try to generate a piece of art on the limited canvas because he/she try to fit it in the already-made frame.
As I believe, there’s no rule or neither right nor wrong in a piece of art. It’s a either good or bad piece of art.
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Wow! Very detailed and constructive criticism. I am quite impressed. My original purpose of this piece was to showcase mainly the architecture of the campus but then I went back and add a few student shots within the architecture. I was not intended to highlight the students.
I actually sped up the motion a bit since the beat is a bit fast but I intended to be much slower so that viewers can get to see the detials of the beatiful shots. I do agree with you about different angel shots. Flash doesn’t seem to handle moving images so well, especially zooming and focusing. That’s why I am looking for an alternative such as Motion or After Effects.
Unfortunately I am not a music producer; therefore, my motion depends much largely on a piece of music that has already produced. I wish I can just go ahead and work on the motion first and come back and score the whole thing but I am not at that level.
Once again, I really appreciate your honest opinion. Thanks bro!
Donny, let somebody else compose music bed for you after you’re done with the piece.
I meat the graphics, that what you do best.